My patch o' dirt
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shinnlinger
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I think a school bus on the roof of the house would really set the place off
Jim_S
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Very nice size plot, your house looks very generous in size too!
It does look very dry in the pictures. Is this a function of drought, or is it normally dry?
Thanks for posting
Jim, I was born and raised less than 20 miles from Mark's place and it is dry. I think it is even dryer than usual this year.
Jim
Oh Shinn!
Don't you know that's a New Hampshire thang!?! 
Same as the excavator in the back yard for the kids to play with! 
And not a single gosh-darned rock in sight!Nice place!!!So flat down there. Love the view.
Isn't that fabulous!!! Dougster
shinnlinger
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MObius,
What are you raising down there? I assume with all the fences you are trying to keep something in.
What are you raising down there? I assume with all the fences you are trying to keep something in.
Bindian
Member
Dougster,Oh Shinn!
And not a single gosh-darned rock in sight!
Dougster
When God made Texas, he rolled the rocks up north across the Red River.
I will post some photos of my place here when the grass turns green in about a month or so.hugs, Brandi
They say it's a beautiful thing to be able to dig a hole with your backhoe and not hit granite boulders and/or solid bedrock.Dougster,
When God made Texas, he rolled the rocks up north across the Red River.
hugs, Brandi
Unfortunately, I wouldn't know.
Never had that pleasure. 
Dougster
Archdean
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MtnViewRanch
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They say it's a beautiful thing to be able to dig a hole with your backhoe and not hit granite boulders and/or solid bedrock.
Unfortunately, I wouldn't know.
Dougster
Doug, I can only dig about 20' down or so, ah because that is all the deeper that my hoe will reach.
Bindian
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Dougster,They say it's a beautiful thing to be able to dig a hole with your backhoe and not hit granite boulders and/or solid bedrock.
Unfortunately, I wouldn't know.
Dougster
It is a sweet feeling.
Dad had white stones on the farm he was raised on in the Panhandle. The stones popped up each time they plowed. He and his 5 siblings hauled them in a horse drawn wagon and piled them beside the barn. To this day you can spook a cotton tail and sometimes a jackrabbit beside that pile of stone.hugs, Brandi
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Nicahawk
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Mobilus,
Beautiful place!
Your grand children would love it if you had a couple miniature donkeys. 
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Deerlope
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Doug, I can only dig about 20' down or so, ah because that is all the deeper that my hoe will reach.
Man thats got to be something to be able to dig that deep without hit a boulder. I can't even walk across my lawn without stumbling over one. I can not remove it either because of it be ledge rock that runs for miles.
Being Dougster comes here now and then, and makes fun of me here about our humble home and property, I thought I would offer these,
1 our house sits 600 ft from the water and up high
2 using above pic, we walk 300 right then look down on our lower field
3 using neighbors pontoon boat
1 our house sits 600 ft from the water and up high
2 using above pic, we walk 300 right then look down on our lower field
3 using neighbors pontoon boat
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Nicahawk
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How's the fishing........looks like the answer might be real good! Real nice place.
Thanks for the compliments! 
Modest by some people's standards, but I grew up poor in south Alabama, and I could wish for none better. All 20 years of moving all over the globe, I had one goal: To retire from active duty and use my pension to pay for my house and land. You'd be suprised how many times that dream kept me signing the dotted line for another four year enlistment. All in all, the Air Force has been very, very good to me.
Mith, yes it is dry here. And we're in a drought as well.
We had an exceptionally wet Spring last year and the underbrush grew high...this has resulted in some pretty hot brush fires this Fall and Winter. Anyone with any sense at all keeps the undergrowth cut back aways from their house and outbuildings. On Jan 1 of 2006, the little town of Ringold TX just about completely burnt down due to a brush fire. It was then that I joined the volunteer fire department in my community.
Oh, we added two bedrooms and a bath, and now it is at 3K sq ft. Remember, we had FOUR kids at home until a recently. With my bunch, even that got crowded at times. It has been great to be the place that our kids friends liked to come to.
Shinn, the schoolbus thing went right over my head...?
Yeah, the fences keep animal in, you're right about that. I raised Boer and Nubian cross goats for a few years when we got here. Got out of it a couple of years ago when I sold the herd to pay off a note. 
Nica, that's probably true...but I don't need the pasture ornaments right now. My neighbor just gave me 16 chickens and they've got a while before they start laying, so that's enough feed expense for right now. Besides, I might just buy a cow/calf pair when it starts to get green...if we get some rain soon.
Awww, come on Brandi, EVERYBODY's grass is dead now...ain't it? Don't let that stop you.
Archdean, thanks for trying to do the pan, but all I got was a little X in a box.
Still better than I could do, I think.
Larry, that's a great place! It's funny how folks notice the attributes of a place. When y'all notice that there are no rocks, you don't notice the dense clay that makes the leech field much less efficient. Stuff like that. When i look at your places, I see the beauty in the hills and trees, water, etc. I don't even think about the rocks. Isn't that somewhat akin to the "grass is greener over the fence" theory.
When my youngest daughter moved to Phoenix AZ to live with her mother, she had that perspective. Thought it would be great. She called me halfway through the school year wanting to move back
...but I made her finish the year out. When she returned, I told her that when the grass looks greener over on the other side of the fence, sometimes it has been fertilized with a lot of bullshit.
Hot dang, I'm long winded this morning. Gotta get to work.
Modest by some people's standards, but I grew up poor in south Alabama, and I could wish for none better. All 20 years of moving all over the globe, I had one goal: To retire from active duty and use my pension to pay for my house and land. You'd be suprised how many times that dream kept me signing the dotted line for another four year enlistment. All in all, the Air Force has been very, very good to me.Mith, yes it is dry here. And we're in a drought as well.
We had an exceptionally wet Spring last year and the underbrush grew high...this has resulted in some pretty hot brush fires this Fall and Winter. Anyone with any sense at all keeps the undergrowth cut back aways from their house and outbuildings. On Jan 1 of 2006, the little town of Ringold TX just about completely burnt down due to a brush fire. It was then that I joined the volunteer fire department in my community. Oh, we added two bedrooms and a bath, and now it is at 3K sq ft. Remember, we had FOUR kids at home until a recently. With my bunch, even that got crowded at times. It has been great to be the place that our kids friends liked to come to.
Shinn, the schoolbus thing went right over my head...?
Yeah, the fences keep animal in, you're right about that. I raised Boer and Nubian cross goats for a few years when we got here. Got out of it a couple of years ago when I sold the herd to pay off a note. Nica, that's probably true...but I don't need the pasture ornaments right now. My neighbor just gave me 16 chickens and they've got a while before they start laying, so that's enough feed expense for right now. Besides, I might just buy a cow/calf pair when it starts to get green...if we get some rain soon.
Awww, come on Brandi, EVERYBODY's grass is dead now...ain't it? Don't let that stop you.
Archdean, thanks for trying to do the pan, but all I got was a little X in a box.
Still better than I could do, I think.Larry, that's a great place!
It's funny how folks notice the attributes of a place. When y'all notice that there are no rocks, you don't notice the dense clay that makes the leech field much less efficient. Stuff like that. When i look at your places, I see the beauty in the hills and trees, water, etc. I don't even think about the rocks. Isn't that somewhat akin to the "grass is greener over the fence" theory.When my youngest daughter moved to Phoenix AZ to live with her mother, she had that perspective. Thought it would be great. She called me halfway through the school year wanting to move back
...but I made her finish the year out. When she returned, I told her that when the grass looks greener over on the other side of the fence, sometimes it has been fertilized with a lot of bullshit. Hot dang, I'm long winded this morning. Gotta get to work.